How to Start a CTI project

Most workshops that CTI offers can be delivered to your site through a series of workshops, each lasting three or four days, spread over a school year. The workshops are presented by trainers certified by the RWCT program.

Select a target group of about 35 participants. Try to select 3-4 participants from each school site. It helps to have a small group instead of just one person representing a particular school. Who should be selected?

Educators with outstanding teaching experience

Educators with leadership potential

Educators willing to become certified trainers

Educators willing to train others

You will need to pay the costs of local participants. Look for funding from government or private sources. Typically costs include:

Transportation, hotel, meals, if necessary

Photocopies of project materials

Supplies, such as chart paper, markers, tape

You will also need funding for the expenses of the certified RWCT trainers. This might include:

Transportation,

Hotel and meals

Sometimes an honorarium, although many will volunteer their services

Make a schedule for the workshops. They could be after school during the week, or on weekends, or during vacation breaks. You can discuss this schedule with the trainers.

Make a plan for expanding the project. One effective plan is a cascade model, i.e. the participants in the first group are certified as trainers. Then they go out in groups of 3-4 to train other groups of 35 participants. Those new participants then do the same.

Be sure that participants have time for guided practice during the workshops. Be sure that they try out project strategies with students between workshops. Have meetings between workshops for participants to share successes, ideas, questions, and problems.